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Bank firing

Term · Oil and gas · MLC-T-OAG-000271

A perforating technique in which a group of guns is run together on a single trip and then all of them are fired at once, so a long interval or several zones are perforated without a separate run for each gun. It contrasts with selective firing, where guns carried on the same trip are fired one at a time. The technique relies on the guns being linked so that one initiation passes to every gun in the group.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-OAG-000271
FieldOil and gas
SubjectPerforating
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-OAG-000271",
  "term": "Bank firing",
  "field": "Oil and gas",
  "definition": "A perforating technique in which a group of guns is run together on a single trip and then all of them are fired at once, so a long interval or several zones are perforated without a separate run for each gun. It contrasts with selective firing, where guns carried on the same trip are fired one at a time. The technique relies on the guns being linked so that one initiation passes to every gun in the group.",
  "subject": "Perforating",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oil-and-gas/bank-firing/"
}

Record 292 of 4,469 in Oil and gas terminology (MLC-0103). Request the full dataset.